The agenda for the November 2014 meeting of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) is now available. The JSC will meet November 3-7, 2014 in Washington, D.C., USA, at the American Library Association Washington Office building (1615 New Hampshire Avenue NW).
The latest issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is a special issue titled "RDA around the world". The thirteen articles cover aspects of RDA implementation from initial consideration to full translation, with perspectives from Canada, China, German-speaking countries, Iran, Israel, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, and French and Spanish translation activity.
The presentations given at the IFLA Satellite Meeting RDA – Resource Description and Access – status and perspectives 2014 are available on the website of the German National Library at http://www.dnb.de/DE/Standardisierung/International/iflaSatelliteMeetingProgramm.html.
Attention is drawn to the consultation into the future governance of RDA recently announced by the Committee of Principals.
The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA will meet November 3-7, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
Sessions will be held from 8:30-17:30 at the American Library Association's Washington office. Observers are welcome at open sessions and are encouraged to attend. The committee meets in closed executive sessions at the beginning and end of the week.
In accordance with 6JSC/Policy/1 Statement of policy and procedures for JSC, the deadline for submitting proposals and discussion papers for the development of RDA is three months before the JSC annual meeting. For 2014, the deadline date is 4 August 2014.
Three new members have joined JSC working groups following their nomination by EURIG, the European RDA Interest Group. They are:
The RDA Toolkit Technical Committee has updated the website of rdaregistry.info, the namespace of the RDA element sets. The website provides access to the element sets as well as examples and datasets which use RDA elements, and maps between RDA elements and other namespaces. The maps include one between elements for RDA relationship designators and the MARC relator codes.
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